Many of the reports out of Egypt about the state of Christianity there are not good. Here are two:
“Egypt’s Christians are being driven out – will the world notice?”
“ISIS murdering Coptic Christians on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula over faith”
Now, before some of you begin posting comments about the intrinsic evil of Islam and Muslims, please note that this current bout of persecution is something new — while Islam in Egypt isn’t new. You might want to ponder that. Reflect on its significance. Christians have been in Egypt since the first century. They continue to be there. The Arab conquest of Egypt in the mid-seventh century didn’t exterminate them, nor anything like thereunto. The process of Islamization was gradual; Egypt probably became majority Muslim (i.e., more than 50%) only in the mid-tenth century — that is, fully three centuries after the arrival of Arab Muslims to the Nile Valley.
Since I don’t grant that Islam is irredeemably evil, oppressive, and cruel, I’m often accused of refusing to see any problems in the Islamic world. This is nonsense. I see them very clearly, and have seen them, directly and at first hand, for decades. But the first step toward solving a problem is to see it accurately.
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